Wednesday, 17 March 2010

A Question For You...

I've been doing this blogging thing for about a year and a half now, and it goes without saying that it was the best decision I've ever made. But, I haven't been on this Earth all that long (only 17 years), so I was much too young to witness some of the greatest artists that laid the foundation for artists that I know and love today.

So my question is...What artist/song/album made you think "Damn, electronic music owns!" ?

I loved Daft Punk as a kid, and Discovery was the first CD I ever truly fell in love with, so I've been a fan of dance music for a long time (for my age). But the first song that really made me think "Damn, this stuff is legit" was Justice's DVNO.

So what song inspired you to keep listening? Let me know in the comments section.

I love to listen something new, and it's hard to listen to that nowadays...=X but Daft Punk (whan I was a kid) and some experimental (genius) dudes like Akufen, Cornelius, Hifana, some OldSkool Hip-Hop, some Death Metal, some ambient music...I love them all! They are my inspirations

For me, I was introduced to electronic music after watching the music video for LCD Soundsystems "Daft Punk is playing at my house". I discovered Daft Punk while searching for that music video again online.

But what really got me into house music permanently was "The weak become the heroes". One of the best testaments to house/dance music ever created.

For me, daft punk's discovery album is the first album i ever bought, i was like 11, but i didn't really understood it was electronic music or what, i just liked it.

I really discovered electronic music with Tacteel - Xmas in Padova, i found his myspace, 3 years ago now, by searching who the hell was that "Tacteel guy" with catchy voice in TTC - Travailler. And I think that i'm pretty glad i did that search even though i was kinda disapointed that he didn't sing :D

i am bit older than you... however we still do have something in common about what made me into music, and specially electronic music: probably the CD I've most listened to, Daft Punk's Homework (sounding like the sample of the album here), which I bought in 1996.I listened to it for years.I recorded a tape only with the last track of the album Alive. And it got stuck on my car stereo... I was so glad. People asked me to change the music but I just couldn't.

Believe it or not...Kraftwerk's Autobahn at age 5. The idea of music WITHOUT instruments fascinated me, & of course, like all kids, I drifted from genre to genre before settling back into electronic stuff around age 10/11, starting again with Daft Punk, that I rememberd from 2001, moving on shortly to Felix Da Housecat & Electroclash.

When I was six years old, believe it or not in 1997 when Daft Punk released Homework. My father had bought the CD because he had always loved electronic music and was "branching out" as he explains it to me now when he bought the CD. So I have been in love with electro music since day one pretty much!

Aphrohead's (aka Felix Da Housecat) LP "Thee Underground Made Me Do It" Just fantastic rollin' funky beats. In fact just take a look at Felix's other work as Rocketmann . He has always been around the electronic dance scene doin' somethin' different.

Les Rythmes Digitale's "Darkdancer" was out there in the clubs years before that Citroen Transformer advert. I remember the World DMC Team Champions played in Aberdeen (in 1999 or 2000 i think?) They played out Propellerhead's On Her Majesty's Secret Service (there's a string laden Moonraker Soundtrack breakdown) and out came Stuart Price's "Hey you What's That Sound?" That had the hairs on the back of me neck up!

And off the chart, Nine Inch Nails first LP "Pretty Hate Machine" If you don't know it - try it. It's one of the most together pieces of electronic music ever.